Braarudosphaera bigelowii Gran and Braarud 1935 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae

Alternative combination: Pontosphaera bigelowii

Belongs to Braarudosphaera according to M. S. González Estebenet et al. 2021

See also Bown 1998, Pérez Panera 2013 and Tunik et al. 2004

Sister taxa: Braarudosphaera africana, Braarudosphaera hockwoldensis, Braarudosphaera regularis, Braarudosphaera stenorhetha, Braarudosphaera turbinea

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• NN21 of Indian Ocean (5 collections), North Pacific (19), South Pacific (1)

• C1 of North Pacific (10)

• G. ruber PRZ of Indian Ocean (1)

• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (41), North Atlantic (36), North Pacific (61), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (26)

• G. miocenica HOZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (1)

• NN16 of Indian Ocean (10)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Pacific (1)

• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (32), North Atlantic (8), South Pacific (15)

• NN12 of Indian Ocean (3)

• G. tumida/G. nepenthes CRZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (3)

• Neodenticula kamtschatica of North Pacific (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Indian Ocean (1), South Pacific (1)

• Miocene of India (1), Indian Ocean (26), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (1), Slovakia (2)

• Neogene of Indian Ocean (2)

• Oligocene of Germany (1), Indian Ocean (3), North Pacific (12)

• NP21 of North Pacific (1)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Indian Ocean (1)

• Eocene of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (18), North Pacific (2), United States (1: Georgia)

• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (3)

• Paleocene of Argentina (2), North Atlantic (2), South Atlantic (1), United States (1: South Carolina)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (4), Austria (1), Canada (2: Alberta), France (1), Indian Ocean (1)

Total: 369 collections each including a single occurrence

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